REQUEST for PROPOSAL FOR SEMESTER PROJECT.docx

REQUEST for PROPOSAL
FOR
SEMESTER PROJECT
Mental Health Service project
PREPARED BY
Your Name
Name of University
October 2018
PART 1
Needs Statement
Goals
Objectives
NEED STATEMENT
The rising international trend in the number of parents who
separate or divorce is raising concerns about long-term

consequences for child and youth well-being and adjustment to
adulthood.
Separation and divorce may increase risks for negative
outcomes in physical, mental, educational and psychosocial
well-being during childhood and later, as youth transition to
adulthood. Most children of separated and divorced families do
not have significant or diagnosable impairments.
Most children and youth experience initial painful emotions
including sadness, confusion, fear of abandonment, anger, guilt,
grief, and conflicts related to loyalty and misconceptions.
Although many children and youth of separating or divorcing
parents experience distressing thoughts and emotions, the
overwhelming majority do not experience serious outcomes.
However, even small negative effects constitute a serious public
health problem when multiplied by the millions of individuals
who experience separation or divorce.
Due to the effect of the divorce on the kids, they tend to be
stubborn and are wild and erratic in behavior which is usually
harmful to the children. It affects their daily relationship,
academics, and personal lives.
Divorce can increase the risk of mental health problems in
children and adolescence. Regardless of age, gender, and
culture, studies show children of divorced parents experience
increased psychological problems. Divorce may trigger an
adjustment disorder in children that resolves within a few
months. But, studies have also found depression and anxiety
rates are higher in children from divorced parents.
According to our research conducted, children of divorced
parents scored significantly lower than children of continuously
married parents on measures of academic achievement, conduct,
psychological adjustment, self-concept, and social relations.
More recent research continues to suggest an ongoing gap
between children of divorced parents and continuously married
parents. The negative impact of divorce can reach into
adulthood and even later in adult married life, with potential

increases in poverty, educational failure, risky sexual behavior,
unplanned pregnancies, earlier marriage or cohabitation, marital
discord, and divorce
The extent to which the negative outcomes associated with
parental divorce reflect dysfunctional processes that arise
before parental separation, such as interparental conflict and
parental mental health and substance use problems
Problems That May Extend Into Adulthood
For a slim minority of children, the psychological effects of
divorce may be long-lasting. Some studies have linked parental
divorce to increased mental health problems, substance use
issues, and psychiatric hospitalizations during adulthood.
There is an absolute need to help these children of divorced
parents going through adjustments disorder.
What our program offers
Our Mental health program is an essential service for children
with these sort of emotional or behavioral challenges because it
helps them to move through the system as their needs change
while ensuring the delivery of multiple services.
One potential benefit of our healthcare management, in
particular, is its effectiveness in linking youth with mental
health services and continuing service contact. Our participants
will receive our care management services by participating in
more mental health treatment, regardless of the severity of their
symptoms and socio-demographic factors, indicating that our
Mental Health service program will be effective in maintaining
the best quality services to these victims.

GOALS and OBJECTIVES
Goal 1
Assist victims of separated or separating families who are
experiencing issues around family relationships.
Objective 1
To foster peer communication and social relationships.
Objective 2
To help these kids and youth to first of feeling comfortable
about themselves
Evaluation Criteria 1
The participants must show signs OR have records of negative
behavior.
The participant must be between 6 to 12 years of age who are
victims of either divorced parents OR parent who are going
through divorce proceedings
Goal 2
To be more involved in the program by being sensitive to the
need of the participants.
Objective 1
To Encourage, teach and normalize positive feeling expression
to the participants.
Objective 2
Teach age-appropriate skills to build self-esteem, foster self-
confidence and promote children’s resiliency
Participant must show signs of maturity in this stage through
relationship among peers and staff at the mid-program.
In-depth interviews to check the

progress of the participants in terms of confidence and
intelligence.
Goal3
Improve children’s
appropriate expression of emotions about their family situation
and the resulting transition
Objective 1
To increase protective coping skills for
participants who have experienced divorce or separation.
Objective 2
To build on the strengths of
children, youth and families so they find safety, hope, and love.
Evaluation Criteria 1 The staff must give final approval on the
growth of each participant as regards to love, care, and
forgiveness
Participant must show a strong level of excellence in coping
skills and tasks assigned to him/her.
REFERENCES
https://www.verywellfamily.com/psychological-effects-of-

divorce-on-kids-4140170
Bax M, Gillberg C (eds) (2010) Comorbidities in
Developmental Disorders. Wiley.
Birchwood M, Singh S (2013) Mental health services for young
people: matching the service to the need. British Journal of
Psychiatry, 202 (Suppl 54): s1–s2.
Department for Education (2003) Every Child Matters. TSO
(The Stationery Office).
Department of Health (2000) The Mental Health and
Psychological Well- Being of Children and Young People. DoH.
Hughes N, Williams H, Chitsabesan P, et al (2012) Nobody
Made the Connection: The Prevalence of Neurodisability in
Young People who Offend. Office of the Children’s
Commissioner.
Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care
(Department of Health, 25 March 2010):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3804638/
file:///C:/Users/tZoe/Downloads/Working%20with%20Children
%20of%20Divorce.pdf
FOR
SEMESTER PROJECT
Mental Health Service
project

PREPARED BY
Your Name
Name of University
October 2018
FOR
SEMESTER PROJECT
project
PREPARED BY
Your Name
Name of University
October 2018
FOR
SEMESTER PROJECT
Mental Health Service project

PREPARED BY
Your Name
Name of University
PART 2
Methodology
and
Evaluation Plan
Introduction
Divorce has a serious impact on the character of a child as if not
checked. And with the rise of divorce, more children will have
negative psychological effects in the aim of our program help
these victims assist by building a strong level of confidence in
them and to Encourage, teach and normalize positive feeling
expression to the participants.
Methodology and Evaluation Plan
To ensure the success of any program, we must have a plan of
both structure and execution and then to evaluate our every step

of the way on how we are making progress during the program.
For the Structure and Evaluation (Methodology) plan, we will
address them;
1. Project Description.
2. Design of the research.
3. Human subject.
4. Validity and Reliability.
5. Assumptions and limitations.
6. Timeline.
7. Non-personnel Resources
8. Personnel resources
9. Management Plan
For the Evaluation Plan, we will address the following;
1. Specific criteria.
2. Collection of data.
3. Data Collection Plans.
4. Evaluation of Instruments
5. Periodic Reports.
METHODOLOGY
Program Description
A mental health service is created to help youths and children of
divorced parents or in the process of divorce.These children go
through a lot of pain and suffering and a sense of loss and
without a constant watch; they may become a menace in life.
These children are exposed to bouts of depression and anxieties,
have problems with bullying, and peer pressure or drugs and
alcohol. The most important thing is to have someone to turn to
when you need help. This is where our service comes in.
Our program is to help these kids and youth that are victims to

first of feeling comfortable about themselves that they are not
the reason that the parents’ divorce.
We intend to bring these children together and make friends
amongst themselves. We’ll hire a peer support specialist who
has great experience in youth therapy to help with the education
of these children in relating to peer pressure having a sense of
social responsibility among other things.
Research design
Quantitative methods are particularly useful in our design to
measure changes that may likely occur during our program, such
as change in a knowledge, intentions, behaviors or health status
(impacts or outcomes) or we can be able to generalize results
from a sample to the whole of the population group involved.
Our quantitative method will be the use of Surveys will be used
to count responses, calculate frequencies, be able to make
decisions, and compare different individuals and groups.
To achieve this, we intend to use closed-ended questions which
will provide only a limited range of ways of responding to the
questions. Such as questionnaires, numerical responses
Human subjects (sample)
The human subjects consist
of youth’s active of divorced families between the ages of 6 and
12. These youth were randomly selected for our study. The
sample was stratified by service sector affiliation,
race/ethnicity, and level of restrictiveness of care.
Validity and reliability
Validity is defined as when an object measures what it is
supposed to measure. Validity of
the program was assessed using confirmatory factor analysis to
determine whether the content areas truly represented distinct,
although related, dimensions of satisfaction.
Preliminary exploration of the validity of the parent version of

the Satisfaction Scales for outpatient services supported the
existence of four dimensions of satisfaction including:
1. Access and convenience.
2. Child's treatment process and relationship with the therapist.
3. Parent and family services.
4. Global satisfaction.
Reliability is when an object has been measured multiple times
and the readings remain the same. The
reliability of the program was accessed using Child and
Adolescent Needs and Strengths-Mental Health (CANS-MH)
scale which is used to assess the type and severity of problem
presentation, risk behaviors, functioning, care intensity and
organization, caregiver capacity and strengths among children
with protective and mental health needs
Assumptions and limitations
The assumptions of the research and program were examined:
· Whether adolescents with adequate coping skills are less
likely to commit delinquent behavior or show psychosocial
problems.
In our program, we enrolled participants in a 2 weeks workshop
activity that will test their intellectual capacity.
The participants participated in creative, participatory research
workshops. Seven parents completed short questionnaires. 2
clinical staff and 2 administrative staff took part in workshops
to ensure deliverability of young people’s ideas. Young people
were offered group work and individual work opportunities.
We discovered that these victims of divorced parents who feel a
loss of care, anxiety BUT as we channeled their emotions to
creative, it is realized that in the environment of love, which
these kids seem to lack, they can actually thrive and be useful
and positive to themselves in life.
The limitations of our research are limited to the validity and
reliability of the information we receive. The limitations are
divided into the following;

· Measure used to collect the data
Collection of data was done through questionnaires. In collating
the questionnaires, we may likely find out that there were some
questions we didn’t add to it that may be actually vital to our
conclusion.
· Access to information
Our access to information depends on having access to people,
organizations, data, or documents and, for whatever reason,
access is denied or limited in some way, the reasons for this
needs to be described.
This access is due to restricted access to information; people are
not willing to release some details for privacy concerns etc.
· Longitudinal effects
The length of research for our program is limited and has to
speed up to meet up with the program execution.
· Funding
Our research is highly dependent on the number of funds
released to us.

Timeline
Activity
Time Frame
Instrument/Survey Development
2 months
Pilot Testing
5 months
Subject Recruitment
2 weeks
Application of therapy or service
3 months
Parental Education
Excursion
Fun and Games
5 days
Data Entry and Cleaning
4 days
Data Analysis
4 days
Report Generation
4 days
For the Analysis, see Evaluation
Non-personnel resources
These include office materials that will be used for daily
activities for administrative purposes.
Materials include; pens, pencils, paper, clipboards, folders or
files, desks and chairs, other office equipment (printers,
computers), desks, chairs Air conditioners e.tc.
Facilities, Supplies, and Technology.

The address of the facility is XXX, Cooper Road Loco, AL
94558 which is an Industrial park: Industrial Community with
Healthcare Service type. The office facility is a 20 room
building, which involves;
· 10 office spaces.
· 3 clinic rooms.
· 3 open rooms.
· 2 restrooms.
· 1 boardroom.
· Security office.
So within the offices are designated areas/office spaces for
these individuals to interact and perform their functions because
they are close.The office facility will have considerable space
for the receptionist; this is the first contact of the patients with
the organization. There will also be an office for the
Administrative/Human Resource Department. This is a vital
department in the administration with a lot of staff in that
department.There will also be an office for the Project Manager.
His office will include a conference room and workstation.
The size of the office is big enough to place all the desks and
computers and information on the work and interaction and
desks will be placed within that space.
Our arrangement will be in such a way that all members of staff
will work with each other in their own offices.
Personnel resources
These include
Vehicles (Buses, Cars, Vans). The vehicles will be for mobility
sake. For example transporting participants for excursion trips,
conveying the managers and directors to attend seminars and
business meetings etc.
Staff travel will include
destination expenses. For example, Hotel accommodations,
ticket bookings for medical OR educational platforms etc.
Who will be assigned or hired?
Those that will be hired are
the Project Directors, Project Manager, Clinical Manager,

Administrative Director/Human Resource Manager, and Case
Manager. Nurses, Security personnel and a consultant.
Management plan (Work plan) `
As the principal investigator, my
role is to ensure that all the plans of the project are been
executed to details within the budget and to help ensure that
there’s enough in the budget to help further its course.
To ensure the success of the project, I’ll work directly with
all the heads of department and to provide all the weekly
activities report. Heads of department include;
· Project Director.
· Project Manager.
· Clinical Manager.
· Administrative Director/Human Resource Manager.
· Case Manager
· Office Manager
On a monthly basis, we will know what needs to be added or to
be removed OR to be improved depending on the performance
of each department.
On a daily basis, I’ll inspect the clinical department. This
department includes the clinic manager, the nurses, and
therapists. These ones will work directly with these children
with emotional instability and focus on providing treatment,
prevention and giving them an opportunity to be what they can
do and be positive to themselves and to their environment.
EVALUATION PLAN
Specific Criteria
The criteria to ensure the success of

this program will largely depend on the recruitment participant.
The participant must be between 6 to 12 years of age who are
victims of either divorced parents OR parent who are going
through divorce proceedings. These children must have a trace
of violent behavior OR loss of self-worth OR are victims of
bullying OR children due to emotional instability have no home
to live in.
Collection of data
We will use the Qualitative and
Quantitative collection n.
We collect data by
· Setting questions that allow the participants to answer in their
own words. This will allow for greater depth and exploration of
issues or for explanations of closed-ended questions. It will be
conducted face-to-face with the participants or parents of the
participants.
· We will also look into the lives of the participants by
interviewing the people close to the individuals; check their
emotional conditions, academic activities and records, past, and
current activities.
Data Collection Plans
Before the participants are enrolled into the program, we do an
in-depth interview to look into the lives of the children which
include the reason for the parents to divorce, how it’s affecting
the child, the strength of that effect on the child. In this way,
we will be able to decipher the behavioral pattern of each of the
children.
Then, at the beginning of the program, the children will go into
a series of individual and group interviews. This will include;
mental, psychological and emotional testing. This will enable us
to know who they are as a person, The group
interviews, we will collect data on how they can relate to each
other.
This is done on how we handle each personality and how to
guide our program to solve the problem.

During the mid-program and final program, the data collection
will be done through Participant observation whichrequires us
to become involved in the program as it is being carried out.
This is used building trust with the participant in our program
by developing a detailed understanding of behavior and
reasoning in a situation.
There are two forms of participant observation
· Unobtrusive.
· Obtrusive.
Unobtrusive observation involves the undertaking an
observation of the activities in the program, without doing or
saying anything to influence behaviors of those being observed.
Obtrusive observation involves the evaluators taking a more
active role with participants, engaging in the activities and
processes.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval
We have verified that our grant application requires an
institutional review board (IRB) approval.
Evaluation of Instruments
At the beginning to the to the end of the first month, interviews
and survey are the instruments we will be used to implement
this program that period.
During the mid-program to final program, Participant
observation and interviews amongst staff will the instrument in
implementing this program during the period.
Periodic Reports
Our periodic reports for our program submitted the Key
Performance Index because we believe that the KPI will
determine the progress report of our program. This is done to
provide higher management system with information and
support evidence-based strategic decision making for the
progress of the program.
We report will also show the structure of our system on how
affairs are carried out on a weekly and monthly basis. This will

show the progress of these participants and how they are
improving on themselves.
It will also reveal our budget activities based on accountability;
how the money is spent and the services delivered.
REFERENCES
https://cchealth.org/mentalhealth/pdf/2010_0629_program_eval
uation_framework.pdf
http://docs2.health.vic.gov.au/docs/doc/32F5DB093231F5D3CA
257B27001E19D0/$FILE/planning_may05_2.pdf
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/res/mhr/if-res-
mhr-eval-resources-plan-framework.pdf
https://www.cbm.org/article/downloads/54741/Case_Study_Met
hodology_to_Monitor___Evaluate_Community_Mental_Health_
Programs_in_Low-Income_Countries__CBM-LSHTM_.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5564516_Developing_
mental_health_services_in_Nigeria
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/events/2006/benefits-
limitations-and-emerging-research-in-treating-youth-with-
depression/index.shtml
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01497189960
00043
http://www.sociology.org.uk/mpohome.htm

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